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President Donald Trump leaves Friday for a 12-day, five-nation Asia tour, seeking better trade deals and regional cooperation to curb North Korea’s nuclear program. “We’ll be enlisting the help of a lot of people and countries. We’ll see what happens,” he said before his departure.
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South Korea is hoping to hold its first official diplomatic meeting with North Korea in more than two years. NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Frank Aum, senior expert on North Korea at the United States Institute of Peace, about the upcoming meeting and the impact such high talks might have on...
As North Korea continues to enhance its missile arsenal, South Korea's new conservative administration wants to tighten the screws on Pyongyang by taking a "peace through strength" approach. On initiative is reactivating a channel to...
President Joe Biden’s strategy for North Korea isn’t getting traction in Pyongyang. But it’s unclear any other approach would prove more successful. U.S. officials have said they would meet with their North Korean counterparts anywhere, including in Pyongyang — and without preconditions — to talk through a slew of nuclear and...
Russia is continuing to be forced to rely on other nations with international pariah status to help supply its troops and continue its invasion of Ukraine. The White House said Wednesday that North Korea has covertly sent a “significant number” of artillery shells to Russia to help support its war. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told....
As North Korea fires a blitz of missiles, the United States is sticking to a mixture of pressure and offers of dialogue but US policymakers are resigned that little they do is likely to change Pyongyang's course. Eager to avoid another global crisis alongside Russia's invasion of Ukraine, President Joe Biden's administration has focused ...
North Korea unleashed nearly 30 missiles over two days, ratcheting up tensions on the Korean peninsula amid growing speculation that Pyongyang may conduct its seventh nuclear test in the near future. After launching 23 missiles on Wednesday – including one that crossed a disputed maritime border for the first time – North Korea fired six more on Thursday, including a long-range inter-continental ballistic missile, the South Korean military...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is vowing to build "the world's most powerful" nuclear arsenal mere weeks after conducting tests of multiple short-range ballistic missiles and an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). North Korean state media outlet KCNA reported the leader's...
North Korea’s flurry of military activity this year has put it back in the international spotlight. Stuck in a diplomatic stalemate with the United States and a self-imposed COVID-19 lockdown since early 2020, the reclusive nation has conducted more than 60 ballistic missile tests, its...